גָּג gag

Hebrew word for “roof” · Strong’s H1406 · used 30 times in 27 verses

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Meaning

1) roof, top, housetop; 1a) roof (of house); 1b) top (of altar of incense)

How it is translated

Glosses given for gag in context, with how often each is used:

• roof 16
• roofs 9
• top 2
• roof towards 2
• own roof 1

Where it is used

Also in 2 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Joshua 2 (2), 1 Samuel 9 (2), Exodus 30 (1), Exodus 37 (1), Deuteronomy 22 (1), Judges 9 (1), Judges 16 (1), 2 Samuel 11 (1), 2 Samuel 16 (1), 2 Samuel 18 (1)

Forms

• הגג 7
• גג 6
• גגות 4
• גגו 3
• הגגה 2
• לגגך 1
• גגותיה 1
• לגגות 1
• גגתיהם 1
• גגותיהם 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with gag more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• חָצִיר chatsir “grass” 3
• רְחוֹב rechov “street/plaza” 3
• אִשָּׁה ishshah “woman” 5
• קָצֵר qatser “short” 2
• יָרָק yaraq “herb” 2
• עָלָה alah “to ascend” 5
• חֲבַר chavar “fellow” 2
• קָמָה qamah “standing grain” 2
• יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 5
• זֵר zer “border” 2
• מִדְיָן midyan “contention” 2
• דֶּשֶׁא deshe “grass” 2

Key verses

The verses using gag that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Deuteronomy 22:8 — When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
• 2 Samuel 11:2 — And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman…
• 2 Kings 19:26 — Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on…
• 2 Kings 23:12 — And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts…
• Nehemiah 8:16 — So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the…
• Isaiah 15:3 — In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
• Isaiah 22:1 — The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
• Isaiah 37:27 — Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on…
• Jeremiah 19:13 — And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they…
• Jeremiah 32:29 — And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense…
• Jeremiah 48:38 — There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure,…
• Zephaniah 1:5 — And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.